The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-11
HERE AND THERE.

now being sunk near st. Augustine, Fla.
Two million gallons OF wine yet remain in
the Anaheim, Cal, cellars awaiting shipment
A new variety OF apple pie has n hole cut
out of the center, which is filed In with jelly
The first snow OF the season fell at Tacoma,
Washington territory week ago Sunday.
Thirteen wild turkeys were caught in one
pen in Upshur county, W. Va, a few days
ago.
Philadelphia has no licensed push. carts,
which supply everything in the hucksters'
line
A frost in San Pedro de las Colchas, Mexi.
co, is said to have destroyed $4,000 pounds Of
cotton.
In Englewald, N. H., live eight pensioners
OF the war Of the rebellion who are each over
10 years old.
Daniel SPEAKER OF Fonda, n Y, is the old
est bank president in the United States. He
10 80 wears old.
w. p. Moody of Cumberland, n. s., aged
l06 years, recently recovered from serious
attack of Illness.
Seven years ago fire broke out in deer
mine near Virginia City, New, aud 1t has been
burning ever since.
Near Atwater o., n farmer gathered last
season, ,0,3 bushels of corn from less than
eight acres Of land
Mrs. Carroll, of Macon, Ga, has had charge
of the railroad switch at that place for the
pust twenty-five years.
A Buffalo, " Y. newspaper proprietor pre-
sented pair of mlttens ON Christmas day to
each OF his ncwsboys.
The 100000 high school at Syracuse, n. Y,
has been condemned by the board of health Oh
account of defective plumbing.
Paper toboggans are said TO be a great deal
more useful than other toboggans, as they are
lighter and run easier and faster.
An Arizona Judge has decided that peace
officers have no right TO carry concealed weap-
ons any more than private citizens
Two White mountain hotels have been open
ed for toboggan parties who want chutes
SURPRISING all manufactured affairs.
It is said that in the vicinity Of Bowling
Green, KY, there is enough iron to supply
fifty furnaces for two hundred years
A merchant at San Diego, Cal, recently re-
ceved an order from an interior village for o
bible, bowie-kn!fe, and pack of cards.
The battle OF Princeton is to be commemo
rated by the erection of magnificent monn'
ment on the spot where Gen. Mercer fell.
II is estimated that all of hundred addi'
tonal monuments will be erected on the bat
tie field OF Gettysburg during the coming
year.
A locomotive used as swItchengIne at
Fellows Falls VT, Is said 10 be the oldest III
this country, having first been used July %
lS49
Members of the baseball club of Rochester,
\. Y. are already in training for the summer
games They are practlcing in RINK now
ever.
Massachusetts stands second on the list OF
contributors TO the Charleston fund. The hrss
place. In honor, belongs to the factory girls OF
Lowell.
Il Is said that a person can live cheaper ana
At IN. same time more aristocratically, In
Geneva. Switzerland. than in any other city IN
the world.
Five BROOKLYN policemen, who sued the city
IN recover money taken from their salaries
while they were sick aud of duty, obtained
Judgment IN the city court Monday.
For over century the wealthy planters oil
MARYLAND lived in ignorance OF the delicious
ness of tenlpin, and only their slaves ate
them. Now they are glad TO get them at ~
cents plate.
Young man crossed the Hudson river on
the ice at Rhinecliff, y. Y, on Thursday,
mounted on stills, accomplishing the enure
distance nearly two miles, without I"i!' anu
thereby winning wager.
I'm the California peniientiary there are TWO
very old murderers. One is George Jones
AIRED 50 wears, who killed Lorcnz Dutil, ana
the other is y. b. Sutton, aged 10 years, the
murderer of Alexander Martin
II cost a Brooklyn association, formed Tor
the purpose, s., 900 last year to start the
movement for bringing about hal-hoiluay
in that city. one mass meeting alone TOOK
ssG4 out OF the soclcty's treasury.
The canded sweet potato IL Philadelphia
confectionery. II is nothing but sweet pota'
toes cart-illy boiled aud quartered ana then
eaudied In boiling syrup but II is said TO De
dainty and tender and OF delicious flavor
A young daughter OF NeprasAA W
ator Is named Happy New Year Van Wyck'
clerk IN one Of the departments at Washing
ton Return Jonathan Mcigs, and prominent
undertaken at Reno, New, Coffin {. Bier
An effort is being made to have the eapl,A
~ Arizona moved from Prescott TO PhenM
Prescott, once the most populous and thirty
town in the territory, has deteriora'ed 80
that I, is little more than a country village
A 'men's tea" Is the latest noVeliy 'h GU.